Register



July 16, 1940. R R. DEAN 2,207,974

REGISTER Filed March 10, 1959 SHEETS DRESSES I5, E

TABLECLOTHS SHIRTS SLIPS SHORTS TOWELS (BATH) UNION SUITS m m TowLs (DISH) I PAJAMAS f I 13 zs TOWELS (FACE) SOCKS (Pm) A TTORNEY v v V pieces ,sent to the laundry and thereby facilitate Patented July 16, 1940 3 UNITED STATES omen I Y 2,207,974 REGISTER. s Russell R. Dean, Los Angeleacaliflf Application March 10, 1939, Serial Ne." 269,994

3 Claims. (01.40 19) v.

Thislfinventionrelates generally to registers,

and contemplatesmore specifically devices incorporating in juxtaposition with a name register a plurality of, numbered dials adapted for manual manipulation to record the number of articles designated by the name adjacent respective dials.

An important adaptation of the present invention is embodied in a laundry register which may be employed. by a householder who wishes to keep a record of the number and character of the verification of ownership'and sufiiciency of the returns. Such. a device may be equally well adapted for use by the laundry to check the number of pieces received with those available for delivery. Numerous devices have been devised for analogous purposes which, by modification, might be employed in a somewhat similar manner to obviate the usual necessity'of making a written list of articles to be laundered, but a common disadvantage of such conventional devices is the excessive cost of manufacture.

It is a general'object of the present invention to provide a register, having a large number-capacity, comprising a board carrying a list of names of articles, and embodying windows in the board adjacent each name, with means associated therewith to bring appropriate numbers into visible registry witnthe windows.

Morespecifically, an object hereof is to provide in a device of the character above alluded to, an arrangement of parts, permitting utilization of cardboard or other inexpensive material for all principal pieces of the devices while combining maximum facility in use with minimum cost of manufacture.

- Another object is to provide a board having a pair of windows formed therein, adjacent each of a plurality of names, in combination with a series of pins extending through openings in the board adjacent each window, respectively, each pin carrying a dial at the back of the board, whereby the pins afford both a means to rotatably mount the respective dials on the board, and means t individually rotate the dials.

Other objects and salient features of my invention will be apparent to those of skill in the art from an examination of the following description read in the light of the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of one embodiment of my invention adapted for. use as a laundry register;

Fig. 2 is a sectional vview taken on lines 2- posed of cardboard and of a size equal to that of the face plate, is provided to reinforce the latter of Fig, 1, depicting a preferred arrangement of the numbereddials;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary elevation of the face of one of the decimal digit-carrying dials.

Referring .to the drawing in detail, the nu- =5 merals of which indicate similar parts throughout the several views, .5 designates a face plate, which may be stamped from cardboard, of an embodiment, of a register particularly adapted for use by a laundry for recording a list of the various articles of clothing and other textile pieces received. An area B at the top of the face plate 5 is illustrated as available for the name of the laundryonadivision thereof, orv other suitable notation.

Below the area 6, the names of all of the most common articles which the laundry is equipped to service are listed in spaced relation as hereinafter noted. It will be understood that the drawing is merely illustrative of the arrangement of the parts and in no way purports to represent a complete device, it being obvious that the names of numerous articles commonly serviced by a laundry are omitted from the embodiment depicted.

Below each name is a pair of windows 1 in the face plate 5 in which are moved numbers ranging from zero to one hundred, carried by means about to be described.

A back board 8 (Fig. 2), also preferably combut is spaced therefrom by a spacer 9, comprising marginal strips Ill and a center strip II. The face plate 5, back board 8, and intermediate spacer 9, are secured together by an adhesive or other suitable means in the arrangement illustrated, and when so assembled, openings [2 in the spacer between the marginal strips l0 and the center strip ll, register with the columns of double windows 1-! at each side of the board, respectively.

At each side of each double window 1-4, the face plate is provided with a hole which forms a bearing for a pin, I3 mounted concentrically by suitable means to a dial I4 disposed between face plate 5 and back board 8 in the openings I2 formed in the spacer 9. Each dial I4 is position.

are secured, respectively, as well as a means for individually rotating the dials.

Each dial I4 carries the numbers fromzero to nine on, respectively, lines coinciding with the axis of the dial adjacent the periphery thereof, i. e., a distance from the center of the dial substantially equal to the distance between the window under which the dial is located and the center of the dial. It will be observed that the numerals of each pair of dials are arranged consecutively to extend around the dial in counterclockwise direction; the left-hand or decimaldigit recording dial of each double window has the numbers thereon disposed in upright position at the right side of the dial, while the numbers in the right-hand dial of each pair thereof are preferably arranged in a relatively-inverted It is desirable that the numerals from one to nine, inclusive, on each dial should be printed in a color readily distinguishable from the color of the zero as, for example, in red, with the zero shown in black, in order to differentiate the indicia showing in the windows below the names of articles of which a record is made from those in which no articles are registered.

While I have described but one embodiment of.my invention, it will be understood that numerous changes in size, design, number and proportion of the various parts may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention as defined by the appended claims.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1

1. In a device of the, character described, a

face plate having a window therein, a bearingin said plate adjacent said window, a pin journalled in said bearing and extending to opposite sides of said plate, a dial relatively fixed to one end of saidpin, a back board connected to said face plate bearing against said dial to retard rotation of the latter.

2. In a device of the character described; a face plate having a window therein, a bearing in said plate adjacent said window, a spacer having an opening therein secured to said face plate, a back board secured to said spacer, a pin journalled in said bearing and extending into the opening in said'spacer, a dial relatively fixed to one end-of said pin, said back board bearing against said dial to retard rotation of the latter.

3. In a device of the character described, a,

face plate having a pair of windows therein,said

windows being adjacent one another and in'horizontal alignment, a pair of pins extending rotatably through said face plate adjacent said windows, respectively, a dial relatively fixed to each of'said pins, said dials havingannulithere of in partial registry with saidwindowarespec tively, and having delineated on different radii,

thereof and in said annuli, indicia adapted to be selectively brought into registryin upright,

position with respective windows by rotation of 

